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Better Malware Ground Truth: Techniques for Weighting Anti-Virus Vendor Labels

Alex Kantchelian,Michael Carl Tschantz,5 Authors,Berkeley J. D. Tygar

2015 · DOI: 10.1145/2808769.2808780
116 Citations

TLDR

This work adapts a well-known generative Bayesian model that postulates the existence of a hidden ground truth upon which the AV labels depend into a fully unsupervised technique for aggregating the results of multiple anti-virus vendors' detectors.